Australian Politics and Policy - Senior, 2019a

Australian Politics and Policy
continued to plague Australian politics, playing a role in the downfall of successive
prime ministers on both sides of the aisle since 2007.
Conclusions
Contemporary Australia’s colonial and post-Federation political history begins with
the displacement of its Indigenous peoples. The mode of politics reflects, first, the
adaption of British, and the development of unique Australian, institutions. These
institutions have set the ‘rules of the game’ and helped Australia to peacefully
manage the division of natural and political resources among its non-Indigenous
settlers. Second, as Australian society has changed, either through immigration or by
accommodating the demands for access to the public sphere by successive groups,
it has continued to adapt its institutions in order to cope with new challenges and
demands without serious political strife or collapse.
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